netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing lowpan link type

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 09:21:46 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing lowpan link type

On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:17:14 +0300
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
> ---
> These man pages don't use .nh when describing command invocation syntax,
> so we end up with things like this (on 80 character terminals):
> 
>               ip link add DEVICE type vxlan id ID [ dev PHYS_DEV  ] [ { group
>               | remote } IPADDR ] [ local IPADDR ] [ ttl TTL ] [ tos TOS ] [
>               port MIN MAX ] [ [no]learning ] [ [no]proxy ] [ [no]rsc ] [
>               [no]l2miss ] [ [no]l3miss ] [ ageing SECONDS ] [ maxaddress NUM‐
>               BER ] [ gbp ]
> 
> and:
> 
>               ip link add DEVICE type { gre | ipip | sit }  remote ADDR local
>               ADDR [ encap { fou | gue | none } ] [ encap-sport { PORT | auto
>               } ] [ encap-dport PORT ] [  [no]encap-csum ] [  [no]encap-remc‐
>               sum ]
> 
> and this affects this addition as well:
> 
>        TYPE := [ bridge | bond | can | dummy | hsr | ifb | ipoib | macvlan |
>                macvtap | vcan | veth | vlan | vxlan | ip6tnl | ipip | sit |
>                gre | gretap | ip6gre | ip6gretap | vti | nlmon | ipvlan | low‐
>                pan ]
> 
> A possible fix for this would be to put these descriptions in an
> environment with hyphenation mode zero.
> 

Applied.
Not sure what the best silly nroff fix for the hyphenation nonsense is.
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